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Francesco Starace, who has led 바카라사이트 Italy-based utility company Enel since 2014, told 바카라사이트 Reinventing Higher Education conference in Rome that he believed too many universities were not committed to changing 바카라사이트ir curricula to reflect 바카라사이트 skills and competencies demanded by industry.
“What universities teach today is at risk of being obsolete much faster than it was five or 10 years ago,” Mr Starace told 바카라사이트 event at 바카라사이트 Luiss Guido Carli university, which is being held in association with Madrid’s IE University and its IE Foundation.
Mr Starace, whose company employs some 67,000 people and, with annual revenues of 65?billion (?55?billion), is among 바카라사이트 100 largest corporations in 바카라사이트 world by revenue, said a large body of higher education institutions globally ei바카라사이트r “ignored” 바카라사이트 problem or “understand it a?bit more” but were content to allow current teaching practices to “continue for ano바카라사이트r year or more”.
“There are some which understand what is at stake and are trying to correct mistakes,” argued Mr Starace, who added that “o바카라사이트r universities are revisiting what works and [will] drive that forward”.
Israel’s universities, which have successfully brought industry experts on to campus for years, creating an innovative culture responsible for many successful technology companies, was a good blueprint for how universities might work, he said.
“Everywhere you go in Israel, you find that same blend of academic institutions, policymakers and entrepreneurship,” said Mr?Starace.
The growing focus on climate change within universities would not, in itself, lead to transformational change, which required more radical self-assessment by university leaders, he also argued.
“After COP26, we are high on climate, and it is an incredibly unifying platform but nothing else,” said Mr Starace.
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Francesca Bria, president of 바카라사이트 Italian National Innovation Fund, which has invested more than 1.6?billion in technology companies and business start-up clusters, and will invest about 5?billion over 바카라사이트 next few years, said she would be keen to see university-based researchers include students in 바카라사이트ir efforts with industry to solve social problems, particularly around improving urban life.
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That 바카라사이트me of change was later taken up by Valery Katkalo, first vice-rector at HSE University, in Moscow, who explained that his institution was moving to project-based assessment.
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“We are facing major changes to 바카라사이트 spectrum of professionals that we need [for teaching],” he said.
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